DALLAS — A few years ago, at the urging of his wife, Greg Johnson scheduled the first checkup of his adult life. “I didn’t even have a doctor,” says the 49-year-old Corinth, Texas, businessman, who ...

A new comprehensive study published in the prestigious journal PNAS provides some fascinating insights into how female and male brains are intrinsically organized. Employing an innovative deep neural ...

Brain scientists have long debated when, and how strongly, sex starts to shape the human brain. A growing body of imaging work now points to a clear answer: measurable differences in brain size and ...

But the question of how male and female brains differ may still matter, because brain diseases and psychiatric disorders manifest differently between the sexes. Disentangling how much of that ...

New evidence has found that male brains really may shrink faster than female brains with age. Among 4,726 participants with healthy cognition, brain scans have revealed "modest yet systematic sex ...

A new study has uncovered significant differences in how male and female mice process threats, even as they exhibit similar behavioral responses. The discovery suggests that including both male and ...

You're holding two wrinkly human brains, each dripping in formaldehyde. Look at one and then the other. Can you tell which brain is female and which is male? You can't. Humanity has been hunting for ...

In a sweeping new map of the adult Drosophila melanogaster brain, researchers at the University of Oxford found that mature ...

Sex differences in brain structure are present from birth, research from the Autism Research Centre at the University of Cambridge has shown. While male brains tended to be greater in volume than ...

Male and female brains operate differently at a molecular level, a Northwestern University research team reports in a new study of a brain region involved in learning and memory, responses to stress ...

Neuroendocrinologist Catherine Woolley and her team at Northwestern University were studying synaptic modulation in female mice when they ran into some trouble. They were attempting to replicate ...